Soundblaster Live / Lock settings

Qba73

Hey guys am new to this forum, just registered...have read you guys for a long time and decieded to join, GrEaT fOrUm!

ok heres the ques guys. i have a Soundblaster gamer 5.1 which i have for about a year, card only gives me one prob, it has more snap crackle pop than my cereal..lol. i have tried all the fixes out there and i have the latest drivers creative is floating around.

Funny thing is i think i figured out the problem. the reason it cracks and pop is cause of the surround mixer. Example i set the wave balance to about 70% and the master volume to about 70% and adjust the volume via my speakers and wala the snap crackle pop is gone.

now here is the question, is there any way to lock those settings, (the dis-associate speaker setting tab doesnt work, still changes)
cause if i go to a site or play a game or for that matter reboot sometimes that wave balance jumps back to 100% as well as the master volume on its own thus giving me the annoying popping.

any help would be great.

Necrosis

Odd..

I'm not sure how to lock the settings in the mixer; what I've set them at has always stayed put.

DallasStar

I suggest you take a look at the settings of the music/video players and games in your computer. Some of them directly modify your volume control settings and leave them modified while others restore them once you close the player. Some players (winamp for example) also offer an option called "direct sound" which doesn't directly modify the volume controls, but still lets you adjust the volume. That would be your best bet, I guess.

e-Seeker

From my (strange)experience, sometimes it helps to adjust the sliders, close the Mixer, and reboot... ...guess it writes some information, and therefore leaves the levels intact...
Worked for me..